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Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by tempaccsoz5 »

refulgentis wrote: post #28
nhod wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not wrong — but actually the prompt I gave it was "invert Apple's design style." I think it did a reasonable job?

It’s just Claude code house style, it’s as identifiable as Bootstrap. It didn’t invert Apple anything. Speaking of AI-induced delusions, why did you submit this to HN? It made me cringe to see its AI prose in AI code with completely made up bugs (really, the Mail search bar doesn’t work?), with made up numbers based on made up things as the spine of the content.

They're real bugs all right - have you ever tried to search a gmail account via apple mail?

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by vachina »

nhod wrote: post #43
refulgentis wrote: post #23

This is a Claude-coded website that invents metrics and data based on bald-faced lies, ex. the first example makes up that the search in Mail does not work 100% of the time and then calculates fantastical millions of hours wasted. I can report it works fine, needed it to pull up 13 year old emails for me a couple months ago. I absolutely abhor Apple’s software QC since 2010 but I don’t think a vibe-coded, vibes-based…

Huh. How else would you get a massive company that has let certain bugs sit for decades to address them? This method is probably just as ineffective as reporting another bug into the Black Hole of Bug Reports that is Apple, but this one is at least mildly funnier? YMMV of course.

But the bugs never existed in the first place? I hate HN is rife with inflammatory complain pieces like this.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by joeframbach »

aidenn0 wrote: post #41

I own an Android phone. The first time I tried to send a text from my wife's iPhone, I sent the wrong text 3 times in a row because autocorrect was convinced that it knew the word I wanted and I swear that the word was corrected only after I had committed to pressing the send button. At the time the autocorrect on Android was very mild; it's gotten more aggressive since, but still nothing like Apple's

Yes, every time you send a message from an iPhone you MUST append a trailing space, just to be sure it won't fuck up the last word when it sends.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by kccqzy »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #21

Most of these are fully on Apple, but for the Gmail and Google Contacts bugs, I'd say Google is at least partly to blame for positioning the open standards versions of their APIs (IMAP and CardDAV in this case) as secondary to their own proprietary APIs and not implementing them particularly well.

Mail just sometimes refuses to issue a server-side search via IMAP. It insists that it wants to search its offline database of downloaded mails. When it cannot find anything, it will even tell you that “Mail downloads and organizes messages when iPhone is locked, charging, and connect to Wi-Fi.” And my response to that is, it has had eight hours to do exactly that every night.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

kccqzy wrote: post #54
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #21

Most of these are fully on Apple, but for the Gmail and Google Contacts bugs, I'd say Google is at least partly to blame for positioning the open standards versions of their APIs (IMAP and CardDAV in this case) as secondary to their own proprietary APIs and not implementing them particularly well.

Mail just sometimes refuses to issue a server-side search via IMAP. It insists that it wants to search its offline database of downloaded mails. When it cannot find anything, it will even tell you that “Mail downloads and organizes messages when iPhone is locked, charging, and connect to Wi-Fi.” And my response to that is, it has had eight hours to do exactly that every night.

That's fair then (though I haven't hit it because I have all my mail downloaded). There's other bits in Mail that are flaky with Gmail compared to standard IMAP mail providers, though.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by hunterloftis »

650 wrote: post #45

I used to love Apple because they were so far ahead of the game in terms of UX and hardware. They have dropped the ball so much recently with all these UX mishaps from Apple Glass to most of the bugs in the post that affect me. I am more than willing to switch to Android or some other device regardless of price, but haven't found one that is close to equivalent yet. I worry it'll be a few years before something comes…

In the context of laptops, I would agree (MBP's hardware just outclasses everything else, even if I prefer Fedora over macOS).

However, for phones, this just doesn't shake out. The Pixel 10 Pro for instance, has:

* A battery that outlasts the iPhone 16 Pro by an hour

* A slightly better display (higher brightness for outdoor use, higher PPI, higher color accuracy, same refresh rate)

* A better camera for still photography, especially HDR and low-light (although admittedly worse for video)

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by akagusu »

All this s#it was already expected, because this is what happened when companies get big enough without competition or any kind of regulation.

This already happened in other markets and lots of people have warned this would happened again but nobody cared.

Now it doesn't matter anymore because Apple is so big that no matter what kind of s#it they do, nothing will hurt their sales, because people are trapped, depend on their stuff and don't have any other options.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by 650 »

hunterloftis wrote: post #56
650 wrote: post #45

I used to love Apple because they were so far ahead of the game in terms of UX and hardware. They have dropped the ball so much recently with all these UX mishaps from Apple Glass to most of the bugs in the post that affect me. I am more than willing to switch to Android or some other device regardless of price, but haven't found one that is close to equivalent yet. I worry it'll be a few years before something comes…

In the context of laptops, I would agree (MBP's hardware just outclasses everything else, even if I prefer Fedora over macOS). However, for phones, this just doesn't shake out. The Pixel 10 Pro for instance, has: * A battery that outlasts the iPhone 16 Pro by an hour * A slightly better display (higher brightness for outdoor use, higher PPI, higher color accuracy, same refresh rate) * A better camera for still photog…

How's the OS security of the Pixel 10 Pro?

I think "Airpods" and "iCloud" for Photo Storage are the only parts of the Apple ecosystem I use, so those will be missed.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by deathanatos »

The emoji search box's search bar sometimes will just stop working, usually after a {input, erase input, new input} sequence. No idea why. Dismiss picker, try again.

Sometimes the picker just refuses to be summoned.

Bluetooth is a mess. File transfers will fail, who knows why? Certainly not macOS. Often I'll just punt to GoogleDrive-TP.

Really random screen wakes.

Left macOS alone for 5s? All your windows have decided to start playing a game of musical desktop, and need 10s to re-arrange themselves back into place, also while sometimes displaying their contents at 2x.

Slack has any number of these; e.g., emoji inside codeblocks are simply corrupted. A number of odd corner cases in URLs will corrupt, and each edit of the message will further corrupt it.

So much of the web is plagued by some framework that, upon any JS exception, will destroy the entire DOM (idk maybe defunct page > no page at all?) and leave you only with "ApplicationError: …".

At this point I'd add "is a motorcycle a car? Is a pedestrian signal a stop light?!" CAPTCHAKCAS to this list, but those are a "feature".

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